{"id":209685,"date":"2025-12-25T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:02:11","slug":"mars-rover-reaches-new-milestone-by-driving-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209685\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars rover reaches new milestone \u2014 by driving itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars Perseverance rover has traveled nearly 25 miles after five years, a new milestone, in part because of its self-driving capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists choose the rover\u2019s destinations, but it now travels mostly autonomously, traversing unexpected obstacles as it collects samples. <\/p>\n<p>Similar to (earthbound) self-driving cars, the robot can <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/space\/nasa-mars-rover-drive-autonomously\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">scan for potential hazards<\/a> up to 50 feet ahead of it. <\/p>\n<p>It may be a solo act for a while: Despite hopes that the US would send another spacecraft to retrieve the Perseverance\u2019s Martian rock specimens by 2026, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/12\/nasa-will-soon-find-out-if-the-perseverance-rover-can-really-persevere-on-mars\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">no one is building such a lander<\/a>,\u201d and NASA\u2019s strategy for such a project, which would cost billions, remains undecided, Ars Technica wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The good news: The rover appears to be in excellent health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars Perseverance rover has traveled nearly 25 miles after five years, a new milestone, in part because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-209685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}